# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72122"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:00.704Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:44:57.450Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72122"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72122.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72122"
title: "can: bcm: fix lockless bound/ifindex race and silent RX_SETUP failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: bcm: fix lockless bound/ifindex race and silent RX_SETUP failure\n\nbcm_sendmsg() reads bo-\u003eifindex and checks bo-\u003ebound before taking\nlock_sock(), while bcm_notify(), bcm_connect() and bcm_release() all\nmutate both fields under that same lock. Because the lockless reads\nand the locked writes are unordered with respect to each other, a\nracing bcm_notify() (device unregister) or bcm_connect() (concurrent\nbind on another thread sharing the socket) can make bcm_sendmsg()\nobserve an inconsistent combination, e.g. a stale bound=1 together\nwith the now-cleared ifindex=0, silently turning a socket bound to a\nspecific CAN interface into one that also matches \"any\" interface.\n\nKeep the lockless bo-\u003ebound check purely as a fast-path reject, and\nmove the ifindex read (and a bo-\u003ebound re-check) into the locked\nsection, where every writer already serializes. This removes the\npossibility of observing the two fields torn against each other,\nrather than trying to fix it with more READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairs\non two independently updated fields. Annotate the now-purely-lockless\nbo-\u003ebound accesses consistently across all its write sites.\n\nAlso fix bcm_rx_setup() silently returning success when the target\ndevice disappears concurrently instead of reporting -ENODEV, so a\nbroken RX op is no longer left registered as if it had succeeded."
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